From the Vice link, the President did not use Blockly for the JavaScript statement he entered, but dropped into a text mode from graphical mode, like the 1998 M

From the Vice link, the President did not use Blockly for the JavaScript statement he entered, but dropped into a text mode from graphical mode, like the 1998 Microsoft patent describes: 'The code is "not rocket science,” Partovi wrote, but that’s the point (Obama used an as-of-yet unreleased version of Patovi's coding tutorial, apparently).'